Peder Garberg Oral HistoryInterview 1984

Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)

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Ellis Island is a former immigration inspection station. As the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 to 1954, it processed approximately 12 million immigrants to the United States in New York Harbor, within the states of New York and New Jersey. Prior to the immigration station it was owned by the Ellis family before the US government used it as a fort and a naval magazine. Between 1905 and 1914, immigration officials reviewed about 5,000 immigrants per day during peak times a...

Garberg, Pål

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Kjøsnes family

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Wigen family

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Garberg, Ingebrikt

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Allen family

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Kjøsnes, Haldor

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Garberg, Pete

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Garberg, Chris

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Garberg, Andreas

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Garberg, Peder

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Peder Garberg was born on December 8, 1898 in Selbu, Norway to Ingebrikt and Kari Garberg. He was one of four children. Peder worked on the family farm until he left for America in 1917 with two neighboring boys. During his trip to America aboard the Bergensfjord, Peder witnessed a burial at sea. Peder went to LaCrosse, Washington because his friend had talked to someone in Norway who had been in LaCrosse before. The first winter in LaCrosse, Peder worked on the Wigen farm and staye...

Bergensfjord (Steamship)

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Selbu Lutheran Church (La Crosse, Wash.)

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The first meeting leading to the organization of Selbu Lutheran was held at the Peter J. Wigan home on May 2, 1902. The congregation organized in January of 1903, worshipping in the old school house on Mud Flat until the first church was completed in 1905. The name “Selbu” was chosen because most of its members were originally from the Selbu district near Trondheim, Norway. In February of 1928 the congregation decided to build a new brick church to replace the old frame structure. Rev. John Tron...

Garberg, Ingebrikt Jr.

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Maynor family

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Garberg, Kari

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Garberg, Brynhild Kjøsnes

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Rockne, John

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Wigen, Peter

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